Help! 'get thread context failed' error,cant use unity 3 at all...

Unity Engine
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Unity 3 installed fine though I could not install web development player and monodevelop as it gives error ‘could not write to monodevelop.dll\webdevelopplayer.exe’ or something like that.When I try to open 3d platform tutorial or creat new project with included packages such as ‘charactercontroller.unitypackage etc’ it crashes with error ‘getthreadcontext failed’.The loading bar shows ‘standard asset…something.fbx’.

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Firstly, try launching Unity without opening an existing project (hold down the alt key while launching to make this happen). If this doesn’t give you any better results then it might be worth attempting the installation again. Is it possible that virus software was active on the Unity folder during the install? This can sometimes stop files from being written.

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OK managed to get unity 3 installed and running.It is still crashing with ‘thread context failed’ error whenever -

1.I try to close the editor.I had to use task manager as unity crashes but keeps running in procesees.

2.Importing fbx asset for new project.(standard assets\terrain assets.…palm.fbx)

EDIT - According to unity answers culprit is win7-x64+kaspersky 2010.I am getting kaspersky 2011 trial now,will report back.

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i use kaspersky and get the same error! Aha so that’s who the trouble causing rascal was.

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Was having the same problem. http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/19355-Warning-to-anyone-running-Kaspersky

Basically, add Unity Editor to Kaspersky’s trust application list. And its probably necessary to add any game builds you create.

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Adding Unity to the Trusted Applications list didn’t work for me.

However, I finally did getrid of the GetThreadContext error by upgrading to “Kasperksy Internet Security 2011, Version 11.0.1.400 (a)”.

Details at: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/45286-Fatal-error-in-gc-quot-GetThreadContext-failed-quot.

Barry

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Hi everyone…same issue here…so…i did a kind of cheat solution :slight_smile:
open the bootcamp demo project…choose new project…and Unity crashes…goto the bootcamp folder, copy all the files inside and paste them to the folder of your new “crashed” project…restart Unity (make sure that you close all instances of unity CTRL+ALT+DEL open task manager and end process for unity)…restart project and it worked…save project and have a cup of tea :slight_smile: